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Table 2 Cause-specific mortality rates in Poland (2000–2013)

From: Gender bias and sex-based differences in health care efficiency in Polish regions

 

2000

2013

Percentage change (2000–2013)

 

Women

Men

Women

Men

Women

Men

Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)

0.4

0.8

0.4

0.6

0.0

−25.0

Malignant neoplasms (C00-C97)

18.5

25.9

21.1

28.0

14.1

8.1

 • of stomach (C16)

1.1

2.1

0.9

1.8

−18.2

−14.3

 • of trachea, bronchus and lung (C33-C34)

2.0

8.6

3.3

8.6

65.0

0.0

Diabetes mellitus (E10-E14)

1.6

1.1

2.1

1.7

31.3

54.5

Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)

46.5

45.1

47.8

44.3

2.8

−1.8

 • Hypertensive diseases (I10-I13)

1.4

1.0

1.2

1.0

−14.3

0.0

 • Ischemic heart diseases (I20-I25)

12.5

16.7

9.3

12.0

−25.6

−28.1

 • Acute myocardial infarction (I21-I22)

5.4

10.1

3.0

4.9

−44.4

−51.5

 • Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)

12.0

9.6

9.4

7.6

−21.7

−20.8

 • Atherosclerosis (I70)

9.6

6.1

11.7

6.9

21.9

13.1

Cirrhosis of liver (K74)

0.7

1.6

0.5

0.9

−28.6

−43.8

  1. Source: [25]. Notes: Number of deaths per 10.000 population. ICD-10 codes in parenthesis